Britain: Friendly Sea Serpents

Since history first took notice of them
2,500 years ago, the inhabitants of the sun-scorched Cyclades Islands
off Greece have led a parched existence. This summer some of the
Cyclades are looking positively green. On the island of Hydra a resort
hotel that closed two years ago because tourists got tired of going
bath-less has now reopened with baths aplenty. Water, which once cost
$1.40 a ton in the Cyclades, is now selling for 40¢ a ton.

The Cyclades owe their new verdant look to a fleet of water-carrying
Dracones huge, sausage-shaped bags of rubber-covered nylon, which are
towed over...